• Association between anthropometry and lifestyle factors and risk of B-cell lymphoma: An exposome-wide analysis 

      Hosnijeh, Fatemeh Saberi; Casabonne, Delphine; Nieters, Alexandra; Solans, Marta; Naudin, Sabine; Ferrari, Pietro; McKay, James D.; Benavente, Yolanda; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Freisling, Heinz; Severi, Gianluca; Ruault, Marie-Christine Boutron; Bonet, Catalina; Besson, Caroline; Agnoli, Claudia; Barricarte, Aurelio; Christakoudi, Sofia; Masala, Giovanna; Knuppel, Anika; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Bueno-De-Mesquita, Bas; Tumino, Rosario; Huerta, José María; Schulze, Matthias B.; Kaaks, Rudolf; Amiano, Pilar; Barranco, Miguel Rodriguez; Canzian, Federico; Späth, Florentin; Jerkeman, Mats; Rylander, Charlotta; Tjønneland, Anne; Olsen, Anja; Borch, Kristin Benjaminsen; Vermeulen, Roel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-31)
      To better understand the role of individual and lifestyle factors in human disease, an exposome‐wide association study was performed to investigate within a single‐study anthropometry measures and lifestyle factors previously associated with B‐cell lymphoma (BCL). Within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition study, 2402 incident BCL cases were diagnosed from 475 426 ...
    • A comprehensive analysis of the androgen receptor gene and risk of breast cancer. Results from the National Cancer Institute Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3) 

      Cox, David G.; Lund, Eiliv; Blanché, Hélène; Pearce, Celeste L.; Calle, Eugenia E.; Colditz, Graham A.; Pike, Malcolm C.; Albanes, Demetrius; Allen, Naomi E.; Amiano, Pilar; Berglund, Göran; Boeing, Heiner; Buring, Julie; Burtt, Noel; Canzian, Federico; Chanock, Stephen; Flavel-Chapelon, Françoise; Feigelson, Heather Spencer; Freedman, Matthew; Haiman, Christopher A.; Hankinson, Susan E.; Henderson, Brian E.; Hoover, Robert; Hunter, David J.; Kaaks, Rudolf; Kolonel, Laurence; Kraft, Peter; LeMarchand, Loic; Palli, Domenico; Peeters, Petra H.M.; Riboli, Elio; Stram, Daniel O.; Thun, Michael; Tjönneland, Anne; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Yeager, Meredith (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2006-09-20)
      Introduction Androgens have been hypothesised to influence risk of breast cancer through several possible mechanisms, including their conversion to estradiol or their binding to the oestrogen receptor and/or androgen receptor (AR) in the breast. Here, we report on the results of a large and comprehensive study of the association between genetic variation in the AR gene and risk of breast cancer ...
    • Genetic polymorphisms of the GNRH1 and GNRHR genes and risk of breast cancer in the National Cancer Institute Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3) 

      Canzian, Federico; Lund, Eiliv; Kaaks, Rudolf; Cox, David G.; Henderson, Katherine D.; Henderson, Brian E.; Berg, Christine; Bingham, Sheila; Boeing, Heiner; Buring, Julie; Calle, Eugenia E.; Chanock, Stephen; Clavel-Chapelon, Francoise; Dossus, Laure; Feigelson, Heather Spencer; Haiman, Christopher A.; Hankinson, Susan E.; Hoover, Robert; Hunter, David J.; Isaacs, Claudine; Lenner, Per; Overvad, Kim; Palli, Domenico; Pearce, Celeste Leigh; Quiros, Jose R.; Riboli, Elio; Stram, Daniel O.; Thomas, Gilles; Thun, Michael J.; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; van Gils, Carla H.; Ziegler, Regina G. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2009-07-29)
      Background: Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GNRH1) triggers the release of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone from the pituitary. Genetic variants in the gene encoding GNRH1 or its receptor may influence breast cancer risk by modulating production of ovarian steroid hormones. We studied the association between breast cancer risk and polymorphisms in genes that code for GNRH1 ...
    • Genetic risk variants associated with in situ breast cancer 

      Campa, Daniele; Barrdahl, Myrto; Gaudet, Mia M.; Black, Amanda; Chanock, Stephen J.; Diver, W. Stephen; Gapstur, Susan M.; Haiman, Christopher; Hankinson, Susan; Hazra, Aditi; Henderson, Brian; Hoover, Robert N.; Hunter, David J.; Joshi, Amit; Kraft, Peter; Le Marchand, Loic; Lindström, Sara; Willett, Walter; Travis, Ruth C.; Amiano, Pilar; Siddiq, Afshan; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Sund, Malin; Tjønneland, Anne; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Peeters, Petra H.; Panico, Salvatore; Dossus, Laure; Ziegler, Regina G.; Canzian, Federico; Kaaks, Rudolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-06-13)
      Introduction: Breast cancer in situ (BCIS) diagnoses, a precursor lesion for invasive breast cancer, comprise about 20 % of all breast cancers (BC) in countries with screening programs. Family history of BC is considered one of the strongest risk factors for BCIS.<p><p>Methods: To evaluate the association of BC susceptibility loci with BCIS risk, we genotyped 39 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), ...
    • Healthy lifestyle and the risk of lymphoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study 

      Naudin, Sabine; Margalef, Marta Solans; Saberi Hosnijeh, Fatemeh; Nieters, Alexandra; Kyrø, Cecilie; Tjønneland, Anne; Dahm, Christina C.; Overvad, Kim; Mahamat-Saleh, Yahya; Besson, Caroline; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Kühn, Tilman; Canzian, Federico; Schulze, Matthias B.; Peppa, Eleni; Karakatsani, Anna; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Sieri, Sabina; Masala, Giovana; Panico, Salvatore; Tumino, Rosario; Ricceri, Fulvio; Chen, Sairah Lai Fa; Barroso, Leila L.; Huerta, José María; Sánchez, Maria-Jose; Ardanaz, Eva; Menéndez, Virginia; Exezarreta, Pilar Amiano; Spaeth, Florentin; Jerkeman, Mats; Jirstom, Karin; Schmidt, Julie A.; Aune, Dagfinn; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Riboli, Elio; Vermeulen, Roel; Casabonne, Delphine; Gunter, Marc; Brennan, Paul; Ferrari, Pietro (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-16)
      Limited evidence exists on the role of modifiable lifestyle factors on the risk of lymphoma. In this work, the associations between adherence to healthy lifestyles and risks of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non‐Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) were evaluated in a large‐scale European prospective cohort. Within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), 2,999 incident lymphoma cases ...
    • Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer 

      Couch, Fergus J.; Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B.; Michailidou, Kyriaki; Mendoza-Fandino, Gustavo A.; Nord, Silje; Lilyquist, Janna; Olswold, Curtis; Hallberg, Emily; Agata, Simona; Ahsan, Habibul; Aittomäki, Kristiina; Ambrosone, Christine; Andrulis, Irene L.; Anton-Culver, Hoda; Arndt, Volker; Arun, Banu K.; Arver, Brita; Barile, Monica; Barkardottir, Rosa; Barrowdale, Daniel; Beckmann, Lars; Beckmann, Matthias W.; Benitez, Javier; Blank, Stephanie V.; Blomqvist, Carl; Bogdanova, Natalia V.; Bojesen, Stig E.; Bolla, Manjeet K.; Bonanni, Bernardo; Brauch, Hiltrud; Brenner, Hermann; Burwinkel, Barbara; Buys, Saundra S.; Caldes, Trinidad; Caligo, Maria A.; Canzian, Federico; Carpenter, Jane; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Chanock, Stephen J.; Chung, Wendy K.; Claes, Kathleen B.M.; Cox, Angela; Cross, Simon S.; Cunningham, Julie M.; Czene, Kamila; Daly, Mary B.; Damiola, Francesca; Darabi, Hatef; De La Hoya, Miguel; Devilee, Peter; Diez, Orland; Ding, Yuan C.; Dolcetti, Riccardo; Domchek, Susan M.; Dorfling, Cecilia M.; Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel; Dumont, Martine; Dunning, Alison M; Eccles, Diana M; Ehrencrona, Hans; Ekici, Arif B; Eliassen, Heather; Ellis, Steve; Fasching, Peter A; Figueroa, Jonine; Flesch-Janys, Dieter; Försti, Asta; Fostira, Florentia; Foulkes, William D; Friebel, Tara; Friedman, Eitan; Frost, Debra; Gabrielson, Marike; Gammon, Marilie D; Ganz, Patricia A; Gapstur, Susan M; Garber, Judy; Gaudet, Mia M; Gayther, Simon A; Gerdes, Anne-Marie; Ghoussaini, Maya; Giles, Graham G; Glendon, Gord; Godwin, Andrew K; Goldberg, Mark S; Goldgar, David E; Gonzalez-Neira, Anna; Greene, Mark H; Gronwald, Jacek; Guenel, Pascal; Gunter, Marc; Haeberle, Lothar; Haiman, Christopher A; Hamann, Ute; Hansen, Thomas V O; Hart, Steven; Healey, Sue; Heikkinen, Tuomas; Henderson, Brian E; Herzog, Josef; Hogervorst, Frans B L; Hollestelle, Antoinette; Hooning, Maartje J; Hoover, Robert N; Hopper, John L; Humphreys, Keith; Hunter, David J; Huzarski, Tomasz; Imyanitov, Evgeny N; Isaacs, Claudine; Jakubowska, Anna; James, Paul; Janavicius, Ramunas; Jensen, Uffe Birk; John, Esther M; Jones, Michael; Kabisch, Maria; Kar, Siddhartha; Karlan, Beth Y; Khan, Sofia; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Kibriya, Muhammad G; Knight, Julia A; Ko, Yon-Dschun; Konstantopoulou, Irene; Kosma, Veli-Matti; Kristensen, Vessela N.; Kwong, Ava; Laitman, Yael; Lambrechts, Diether; Lazaro, Conxi; Lee, Eunjung; Le Marchand, Loic; Lester, Jenny; Lindblom, Annika; Lindor, Noralane; Lindstrom, Sara; Liu, Jianjun; Long, Jirong; Lubinski, Jan; Mai, Phuong L; Makalic, Enes; Malone, Kathleen E; Mannermaa, Arto; Manoukian, Siranoush; Margolin, Sara; Marme, Frederik; Martens, John W M; Mcguffog, Lesley; Meindl, Alfons; Miller, Austin; Milne, Roger L; Miron, Penelope; Montagna, Marco; Mazoyer, Sylvie; Mulligan, Anna M; Muranen, Taru A; Nathanson, Katherine L; Neuhausen, Susan L; Nevanlinna, Heli; Nordestgaard, Børge G; Nussbaum, Robert L; Offit, Kenneth; Olah, Edith; Olopade, Olufunmilayo I; Olson, Janet E; Osorio, Ana; Park, Sue K; Peeters, Petra H; Peissel, Bernard; Peterlongo, Paolo; Peto, Julian; Phelan, Catherine M; Pilarski, Robert; Poppe, Bruce; Pylkäs, Katri; Radice, Paolo; Rahman, Nazneen; Rantala, Johanna; Rappaport, Christine; Rennert, Gad; Richardson, Andrea; Robson, Mark; Romieu, Isabelle; Rudolph, Anja; Rutgers, Emiel J; Sanchez, Maria-Jose; Santella, Regina M; Sawyer, Elinor J; Schmidt, Daniel F; Schmidt, Marjanka K; Schmutzler, Rita K; Schumacher, Fredrick; Scott, Rodney; Senter, Leigha; Sharma, Priyanka; Simard, Jacques; Singer, Christian F; Sinilnikova, Olga M; Soucy, Penny; Southey, Melissa; Steinemann, Doris; Stenmark-Askmalm, Marie; Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique; Swerdlow, Anthony; Szabo, Csilla I; Tamimi, Rulla; Tapper, William; Teixeira, Manuel R; Teo, Soo-Hwang; Terry, Mary B; Thomassen, Mads; Thompson, Deborah; Tihomirova, Laima; Toland, Amanda E; Tollenaar, Robert A E M; Tomlinson, Ian; Truong, Thérèse; Tsimiklis, Helen; Teulé, Alex; Tumino, Rosario; Tung, Nadine; Turnbull, Clare; Ursin, Giske; Van Deurzen, Carolien H M; Van Rensburg, Elizabeth J; Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda; Wang, Zhaoming; Wang-Gohrke, Shan; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Weitzel, Jeffrey N; Whittemore, Alice; Wildiers, Hans; Winqvist, Robert; Yang, Xiaohong R; Yannoukakos, Drakoulis; Yao, Song; Zamora, M Pilar; Zheng, Wei; Hall, Per; Kraft, Peter; Vachon, Celine; Slager, Susan; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Pharoah, Paul D P; Monteiro, Alvaro A N; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Easton, Douglas F; Antoniou, Antonis C. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-27)
      Common variants in 94 loci have been associated with breast cancer including 15 loci with genome-wide significant associations (P<5 × 10−8) with oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer and BRCA1-associated breast cancer risk. In this study, to identify new ER-negative susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) consisting of 4,939 ER-negative ...
    • Methodological issues in a prospective study on plasma concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and pancreatic cancer risk within the EPIC cohort 

      Gasull, Magda; Pumarega, José; Kiviranta, Hannu; Rantakokko, Panu; Raaschou-Nielsen, Ole; Bergdahl, Ingvar A.; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Goñi, Fernando; Cirera, Lluís; Donat-Vargas, Carolina; Alguacil, Juan; Iglesias, Mar; Tjønneland, Anne; Overvad, Kim; Mancini, Francesca Romana; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Severi, Gianluca; Johnson, Theron; Kühn, Tilman; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Karakatsani, Anna; Peppa, Eleni; Palli, Domenico; Pala, Valeria; Tumino, Rosario; Naccarati, Alessio; Panico, Salvatore; Verschuren, Monique; Vermeulen, Roel; Rylander, Charlotta; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Rodriguez-Barranco, Miguel; Molinuevo, Amaia; Chirlaque, Maria-Dolores; Ardanaz, Eva; Sund, Malin; Key, Tim; Ye, Weimin; Jenab, Mazda; Michaud, Dominique; Matullo, Giuseppe; Canzian, Federico; Kaaks, Rudolf; Nieters, Alexandra; Nöthlings, Ute; Jeurnink, Suzanne; Chajes, Veronique; Matejcic, Marco; Gunter, Marc; Aune, Dagfinn; Riboli, Elio; Agudo, Antoni; Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Hendrik Bastiaan; Duell, Eric J.; Vineis, Paolo; Porta, Miquel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-23)
      <i>Background</i> - The use of biomarkers of environmental exposure to explore new risk factors for pancreatic cancer presents clinical, logistic, and methodological challenges that are also relevant in research on other complex diseases.<p> <p><i>Objectives</i> - First, to summarize the main design features of a prospective case-control study –nested within the European Prospective Investigation ...
    • Mitochondrial DNA copy number variation, leukocyte telomere length, and breast cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study 

      Campa, Daniele; Barrdahl, Myrto; Santoro, Aurelia; Severi, Gianluca; Baglietto, Laura; Omichessan, Hanane; Tumino, Rosario; Bueno-De-Mesquita, Hendrik Bastiaan; Peeters, Petra H.; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Chirlaque, Maria-Dolores; Rodríguez-Barranco, Miguel; Agudo, Antonio; Gunter, Marc; Dossus, Laure; Krogh, Vittorio; Matullo, Giuseppe; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Travis, Ruth C.; Canzian, Federico; Kaaks, Rudolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-17)
      <p><i>Background</i>: Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) and mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) copy number and deletions have been proposed as risk markers for various cancer types, including breast cancer (BC).</p> <p><i>Methods</i>: To gain a more comprehensive picture on how these markers can modulate BC risk, alone or in conjunction, we performed simultaneous measurements of LTL and mtDNA copy number ...
    • Sources of pre-analytical variations in yield of DNA extracted from blood samples: analysis of 50,000 DNA samples in EPIC 

      Caboux, Elodie; Lallemand, Christophe; Ferro, Gilles; Hemon, Bertrand; Mendy, Maimuna; Biessy, Carine; Sims, Matt; Wareham, Nicholas; Britten, Abigail; Boland, Anne; Hutchinson, Amy; Siddiq, Afshan; Vineis, Paolo; Riboli, Elio; Romieu, Isabelle; Rinaldi, Sabina; Gunter, Mark J.; Peeters, Petra H.M.; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Travis, Ruth C.; Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. Bas; Canzian, Federico; Sanchez, Maria-José; Skeie, Guri; Olsen, Karina Standahl; Lund, Eiliv; Bilbao, Roberto; Sala, Núria; Barricarte, Aurelio; Palli, Domenico; Navarro, Carmen; Panico, Salvatore; Redondo, Maria Luisa; Polidoro, Silvia; Dossus, Laure; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Lagiou, Pagona; Boeing, Heiner; Fisher, Eva; Tumino, Rosario; Agnoli, Claudia; Hainaut, Pierre (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition (EPIC) is a long-term, multi-centric prospective study in Europe investigating the relationships between cancer and nutrition. This study has served as a basis for a number of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and other types of genetic analyses. Over a period of 5 years, 52,256 EPIC DNA samples have been extracted using an automated ...
    • Two high-risk susceptibility loci at 6p25.3 and 14q32.13 for Waldenström macroglobulinemia 

      McMaster, Mary L.; Berndt, Sonja I.; Zhang, Jianqing; Slager, Susan L.; Li, Shengchao Alfred; Vajdic, Claire M.; Smedby, Karin E.; Yan, Huihuang; Birmann, Brenda M.; Brown, Elizabeth E.; Smith, Alex; Kleinstern, Geffen; Fansler, Mervin M.; Mayr, Christine; Zhu, Bin; Chung, Charles C.; Park, Ju-Hyun; Burdette, Laurie; Hicks, Belynda D.; Hutchinson, Amy; Teras, Lauren R.; Adami, Hans Olov; Bracci, Paige M.; McKay, James; Monnereau, Alain; Link, Brian K.; Vermeulen, Roel C.H.; Ansell, Stephen M.; Maria, Ann; Diver, W. Ryan; Melbye, Mads; Ojesina, Akinyemi I.; Kraft, Peter; Boffetta, Paolo; Clavel, Jacqueline; Giovannucci, Edward; Besson, Caroline M.; Canzian, Federico; Travis, Ruth C.; Vineis, Paolo; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Montalvan, Rebecca; Wang, Zhaoming; Yeager, Meredith; Becker, Nikolaus; Benavente, Yolanda; Brennan, Paul; Foretova, Lenka; Maynadie, Marc; Nieters, Alexandra; de Sanjose, Silvia; Staines, Anthony; Conde, Lucia; Riby, Jacques; Glimelius, Bengt; Hjalgrim, Henrik; Pradhan, Nisha; Feldman, Andrew L.; Novak, Anne J.; Lawrence, Charles; Bassig, Bryan A.; Lan, Qing; Zheng, Tongzhang; North, Kari E.; Tinker, Lesley F.; Cozen, Wendy; Severson, Richard K.; Hofmann, Jonathan N.; Zhang, Yawei; Jackson, Rebecca D.; Morton, Lindsay M.; Purdue, Mark P.; Chatterjee, Nilanjan; Offit, Kenneth; Cerhan, James R.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Rothman, Nathaniel; Vijai, Joseph; Goldin, Lynn R.; Skibola, Christine F.; Caporaso, Neil E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-10)
      Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM)/lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) is a rare, chronic B-cell lymphoma with high heritability. We conduct a two-stage genome-wide association study of WM/LPL in 530 unrelated cases and 4362 controls of European ancestry and identify two high-risk loci associated with WM/LPL at 6p25.3 (rs116446171, near EXOC2 and IRF4; OR = 21.14, 95% CI: 14.40–31.03, P = 1.36 × 10<s ...